I always finish Zafon's books thinking that I missed a bunch of things—in a good way. His stories are complex, but his characters are so well developed that they just jump off the pages. There's no doubt that some of his storylines are a little . . . weird. But I learn about about the Spanish mental...
Exquisitely written! Damnation and salvation inexorably interwoven. Dark, yet redemptive. Jekyll and Hyde. Translated from Spanish, this is the prequel to 'The Shadow Of The Wind' (which has an earlier publication date). It was about half a dozen years ago, at a book fair, a stranger who was browsin...
Disclaimer: English first, German after the devil and the doctor Someone tried and couldn't do it: Sometimes I regret that I am often to lazy to write a review about a book I read. If you ask me, what is left in my memory about „The Shadow of the Wind“, I can't say much about it. I see a four st...
I received a copy of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s “The Angel’s Game” via the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program, and while I have received many outstanding books through the program, it’s been some time since I was so excited to be chosen. Zafon’s “Shadow of the Wind” was embraced by book-lovers because of...
Αδιάφοροι χαρακτήρες - με πιο αδιάφορο τον ήρωα, συρραφή περίεργων σκηνών, οι οποίες ενώ περιγράφονται πολύ καλά με ιδιαίτερο λόγο, είναι τόσο (ηθελημένα) εξωπραγματικές και ονειρικές, που στο τέλος γίνονται εντελώς αδιάφορες. Κρίμα γιατί ένας εξαιρετικός συγγραφέας, στάθηκε αμήχανα στη συγγραφή της...
I really enjoyed The Shadow of the Wind, Ruiz Zafon's first novel published in the world of the Cemetery for the Forgotten Books and was really excited to be finally picking up The Angel's Game. Set in the same universe, but during the 1920s in Barcelona, this novel follows the tale of David Martin ...
I am a patient reader. I can cope with ambiguity and digression. I enjoy ornate prose and the occasional serving of melodrama. I don't need each and every element of a plot spelled out for me. This means that I loved (almost) every over-the-top melodramatic moment of the first in Carlos Ruiz Zafon's...
Oh my days. This has hit me the same way the three Bioshock games did. I feel as though someone has punched me in the chest. Cannot possibly give a proper review until I've stopped hyperventilating.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon writes books that need to be read slowly and savored. If you don’t, you’ll find yourself lost, missing tiny connections and details that turn out to be oh so important later on. This is something I had to keep reminding myself as I read the book, especially at the beginning. At tim...
A bit of a disappointment after the first in this series. The labyrinthine plot is there, the star-crossed lovers, but somehow it all just goes on a bit too long. The urgency seems less pressing, even as the body count keeps mounting. It's also never a good thing when the villain is so dull he makes...
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